Shortening cutter or whip



July 31, 1934. c. A. RO WLEY SHORTENING CUTTER OR WHIP Filed July 6,1932 Patented July 31, 1934 UNHTED STATES PATENT OFFICE 2 Claims.

This invention relates to a shortening cutter or whip.

An object of the invention is to provide a novel construction designedto be used to cut shortening into flour, or for analogous purposes, and

which may also be used as a type of whip or beater.

More specifically an object of the invention is to provide aconstruction of this character having a handle to which a plurality ofbowed or flexed wire blades are secured, these blades being held inspaced and approximately transverse alignment, the arrangement of thehandle and the blades being such as to facilitate use of the deviceeither as shortening cutter or as a whip.

With the foregoing and other objects in View, which will be mademanifest in the following detailed description, and specifically pointedout in the appended claims, reference is had to the accompanying drawingfor an illustrative embodiment of the invention, wherein:

Fig. 1 is a view in side elevation of the improved device.

Fig. 2 is a View in end elevation of the same.

Fig. 3 is a sectional View taken substantially on the line 33 uponFigure 1.

Referring to the accompanying drawing, wherein similar referencecharacters designate similar parts throughout, the improved shorteningcutter or whip comprises a vertical handle 10 which may be formed of anysuitable material, preferably wood. Associated with the handle there area plurality of bowed or flexed wire blades 11, these blades being bowedin a circular manner so that they form greater portions of a circle thana semi-circle. They are held in spaced relation and in approximatelytransverse alignment, as will appear from an inspection of the drawing.The ends of the wire blades are received in and are held by suitablefittings indicated at 12 and 13. These fittings may be of variousconstructions but in the preferred form of construction each fittingconsists of an ear 14, a body portion 15 suitably corrugated as bycorrugations 16 in which the ends of the wire blades 11 are disposed. Atthe sides of the body portion there are bendable side portions 1'7 and18 which are folded inwardly over the ends of the wires 11 which aredisposed in the corrugations 16. While the manner of securing the endsof the wire blades in the fittings may likewise vary, I prefer to employthe method of construction disclosed in my copending application SerialNo. 623,514, filed July 20, 1932, wherein fittings and wires are usedwhich have previously been coated with tin. When the fittings and thewires are assembled, the assembled fittings and wires are heated to meltthe tin coating on the wires and on the fittings so that the tincoatings will fuse together and in this way the tin will act as a sortof solder firmly anchoring the ends of the wires in the fittings betweenthe body portion 15 and the bendable portions 1'? and 18. When the wiresand fittings are thus assembled the wires are bowed into the positionshown and the ears 14 on the fittings are overlapped. Preferably asingle fastening element, such as for example a nail 19, is driventhrough the two ears and into the bottom of the handle 10, thusfastening the two fittings together and to the handle and causing theupper portions or end portions of the wire blades to converge toward thehandle.

It will be appreciated that by this construc tion the device can be usedas a shortening cutter for cutting shortening into flour and foranalogous purposes and the arrangement of the handle is such as tofacilitate the use of the device as a whip for beating eggs, whippingcream and the like.

Various changes may be made in the details of construction withoutdeparting from the spirit or scope of the invention as defined by theappended claims.

I claim:

1. A device of the class described comprising a vertical handle, aplurality of bowed wire blades arranged in approximately transversealignment, fiat fittings in which the ends of the blades are secured,said fittings having ears which are overlapped, and a single fasteningmeans securing the ears together and to the underside of the handle.

2. A shortening cutter or whip comprising an upright handle, a pluralityof flexed wire blades arranged in substantially transverse alignment,flat fittings into which the ends of the blades extend, said fittingshaving bent ears thereon, the ears on the fittings being overlapped andpositioned against the bottom of the handle, and a fastening meanshaving a head positioned against the bottom ear and extending throughthe ears into the bottom of the handle for fastening the ears thereon.

CHARLES A. ROWLEY.

